# Skipwith Cannell

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'''Skipwith Cannell''' (1887–1957) was an American [poet](/source/poet) associated with the [Imagist](/source/Imagist) group.  His surname is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable.  He was a friend of [William Carlos Williams](/source/William_Carlos_Williams), and like [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound) he came from [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia). Cannell studied at the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia) and was enthusiastic about the work of [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe) and the free verse of The [King James Version](/source/King_James_Version) of The Bible. He was briefly married to [Kathleen Eaton Cannell](/source/Kathleen_Eaton_Cannell), who was generally known as 'Kitty'.

Cannell met Pound in [Paris](/source/Paris) in 1913. Pound sent some of Cannell's poems to [Harriet Monroe](/source/Harriet_Monroe).  Back in [London](/source/London), Pound took Cannell and Kitty to visit [Yeats](/source/William_Butler_Yeats) and found a room for the couple below his own in Church Walk, [Kensington](/source/Kensington).

Cannell's work appeared in the first Imagist anthology, edited by Pound and published by Poetry Bookshop in  1914  ''[Des Imagistes](/source/Des_Imagistes)''<ref>Hughes, Glenn, ''Imagisms & The Imagists'', Bibbs&Tannen, New York, 1972 {{ISBN|0-8196-0282-5}}</ref>  and ''The New Poetry: An Anthology'', edited by Harriet Monroe and [Alice Corbin Henderson](/source/Alice_Corbin_Henderson) in 1917.

Cannell and Kitty divorced in 1921. There were no children from this first marriage. Cannell married secondly Juliette Del Grange, a French national with whom he had two daughters, May and Sarah. His second marriage also ended in divorce. He married a third time to Catherine Pettigrew, with whom he had five additional children, David, Mary, Michael, John and Susan.

He was closely involved with [Alfred Kreymborg](/source/Alfred_Kreymborg)'s magazine ''[Others: A Magazine of the New Verse](/source/Others%3A_A_Magazine_of_the_New_Verse)''.

==References==
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==Sources==
* Robert Karoly Sarlos, ''Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: Theatre in Ferment'' [University of Massachusetts Press](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Press), 1982. {{ISBN|0-87023-349-1}}
* James J Wilhelm, ''Ezra Pound in London and Paris 1908-1925'' Penn State Press, 1990. {{ISBN|0-271-00682-X}}
* Noel Stock, ''The Life of Ezra Pound,'' Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. {{ISBN|0-14-021795-9}} (p.&nbsp;174 of the Penguin edition)
* James J Wilhelm, ''Ezra Pound in London and Paris 1908-1925'' Penn State Press, 1990. {{ISBN|0-271-00682-X}} (see p.&nbsp;301)

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060910173444/http://www2.davidson.edu/common/templates/news/news_tmp01.asp?newsid=2765 News item about small magazines, mentioning Cannell amongst others]

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Category:1887 births
Category:1957 deaths
Category:Imagists
Category:20th-century American poets

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